The U.K. National Health Service has staggered along into its 65th year, and continues to provide an excellent example of just how really shitty government-run health care can be.

After a police officer was acquitted of charges that he assaulted a teenaged suspect — an attack caught on video that was barred from admission as evidence at trial — St. Louis prosecutors released the footage to news organizations.

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my co-worker’s half-sister makes $76 every hour on the computer. She has been out of work for 5 months but last month her pay was $18019 just working on the computer for a few hours. Here’s the site to read more…. http://www.cnn13.com

Because it is his world. We just live in it. The whole point of the 08 election was not to elect the best qualified person. It was to give douchebags like this guy the thrill of being part of history. We are all just actors in his personal drama.

Actually, you should read the article. She’s the classic liberal mugged by reality. You should be welcoming her with open arms. She actually read something by the other side (The American Conservative) identified with it, and decided to change.

Wait, was there a decent candidate in 08? I mean yeah we had Ron Paul in the primaries but even as much as folks here would have liked him he has some serious foibles that would probably have made him a bad presidental choice.

Outside of that as bad as Obama has been it is still entirely arguable that he was in fact the best choice from among a VERY bad lot.

I’m guessing I’m going to get a lot of horrified looks in the coming weeks and months when I tell people I’m a conservative. That statement does not go over well in a city as liberal as New York, but I can’t hide who I am.

That’s a load of shit. I have plenty of friends- New Yorkers- who know me as a libertarian. I’ve never had people actually not want to hang out with me or meet with me or do business with me because of it.

Sorry for the Google translate link; it’s not as if I speak Finnish well enough to translate the whole thing (and the comments) myself. Suffice it to say that the amount of “we have to punish somebody” butthurt over what was really a freak accident is saddening.

Is it bad that I half expected Obama to intervene and put Morsis back in office? You know because we just haven’t given the Egyptians enough reason to hate us and Obama never met an Islamic fascist he didn’t like.

Given that they were already importing several billion dollars worth of food… everyone? I’m not saying the US should do anything different, except follow their own guidelines on MilAid and cut it off until Congress has reviewed the new reality on the ground. Fuck it. Let them sort themselves out. I’m glad I got to see Cairo in 2010.

Apparently, AGW has been fucking the Egyptians since the fall of Carthage, because the Breadbasket of the Mediterranean during Alexander’s time wasn’t worth shit between the fall of the Roman Empire and the invention of the telegraph.

It is a put up job no doubt. In all seriousness, some things are self authenticating. If fluffy is on trial for murder and we stumble on a video tape of him committing the crime, the prosecution would not have to produce the guy who shot the video to get it in court. All they would need to do is get someone who knows fluffy and the victim can look at the tape and go “yeah that is fluffy shooting Joe alright.”.

And they are obsessed with how everyone else is “compensating for something”. It never dawns on them that maybe their insistence that every single one of their politicians is brilliant might be compensating for something.

Yeah, expressing the slightest doubts about the immediate canonization of St. Trayvon is one of the fastest ways to work people up into a lather, I’m finding. And my position is merely “reasonable doubt exists”.

That’s what’s so stupid about self-flagellating liberals like Matthews encouraging this. If blacks do end up rioting in the wake of any kind of non-conviction, they won’t distinguish between honest-to-goodness racists and the limp-dicked SWPLs that constantly try to pretend how “down they are with the brothers.”

The sad fact is, other than catching a few white people at the wrong place at the wrong time, any riots will harm black people. If there was a race riot in Washington, the cops and National Guard would basically barricade in the black neighborhoods, let them run rampant for a few days, go in and shoot a few of them and arrest a few thousand, and that would be it. The overwhelming majority of people harmed by such an event would be black people.

Not that it would be any better if they harmed white people. But people like Matthews claim to be on the blacks’ side but would love nothing better than to see a mob burn down of a bunch of black owned businesses and homes.

Jello Biafra had some wise words to say on this subject before terminal Bush Derangement Syndrome consumed his brain.

California Uber Alles ranks up there with Moon is a Harsh Mistress in turning 13 year old me into a libertarian leaning punk. In a better world, Jello would have continued down the path of questioning all authority, rather than becoming a boot licking lefty. Alas.

I’m guessing that that’s why the MSM is making the prosecution’s case sound a lot more damning than it is. If/when GZ is acquitted, anyone who’s not paying close attention will assume it was racism, straight up.

That is what they are doing. If you just listen to the news, which a lot of people do, you would have no idea what a joke this trial is. You will logically conclude that acquitting Zimmerman is a miscarriage of justice. Thank the lying media for anything bad that happens after this trial.

Maybe. I didn’t look at it that way. I looked at it as him saying all right thinking people know he is a bad guy. I thought to point was to say that anyone who took Zimmerman’s side is some kind of mysterious other. But I can see where he might have been saying there is a bias against him now that you say that.

Do you think his failure to mention that the employer has to pay half of the employees social security taxes was intentional or is he just that stupid and has no idea how social security actually works?

Yes and no. Strictly speaking the employer pays. How much of that cost he is able to pass onto his employees depends on the labor market and where the employees’ wages are on the demand curve. Just because the employer no longer has to pay, doesn’t mean he will pass the entire amount on to the employees. Some of it sure. But likely not all of it.

I guess if the immigrants didn’t mind sleeping in the Tuff Shed in the backyard they could afford it. But hell, the median income is only about $40K and most people are living paycheck-to-paycheck as it is.

In our graduate program we have had students with undergraduate degrees in English Literature, Music, Acting, Technical Theatre, Graphic Arts, Sculpture, costuming, Political Science and Religion/Philosophy.

What, no IT graduates, lawyers or nurses want a MFA in Puppetry? Colour me astonished

The state universities in FL are fighting tooth and nail against having to tie into Department of Labor statistics like FL community colleges have done because their outcomes will be no better and they know it.

Well, the gay activists are about to join the deaf activists and the MADD people as people who have triumphed so thoroughly that they no longer have any reason for founding non-profits and talking to important people. I expect full-retard to follow anon.

Yeah it is actually kind of funny, ask anyone, especially those wishing the Air Force had to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber which the US spent more on, the Military or Education and you’d get about 100% agreement that it was the Military and yet every year from 1990 through 2010 Defense Spending was greater than Education Spending with defense only slightly overtaking education in the last 3 years thanks to the combination of the recession hitting state and local budgets harder and the Feds funding 2 wars.

Look, you’re free to *believe* whatever you want. And you’re free to get together each week in a house of worship to ritually affirm your beliefs. But if you insist on *acting* on your beliefs in public, then of course you have to be subject to legal restraint. What are you, some kind of fundamentalist?

Fuck these people. Anyone with a bit of common sense could see that implementing policies like campus speech codes in an environment steeped in Marxist ideology would eventually lead to a reactionary culture of inverted puritanism, only with whites/males/Christians marked out for ridicule and ostracism.

This is why when people like Tony assert how much more enlightened the university environment is, incidents like these need to be thrown in their face.

Mitchell claims that defendant officers, including Cawthorn and Worley and Sgt. Michael Waller then “conspired among themselves to force Anthony Mitchell out of his residence and to occupy his home for their own use.” (Waller is identified as a defendant in the body of the complaint, but not in the heading of it.) The complaint continues: “Defendant Officer David Cawthorn outlined the defendants’ plan in his official report: ‘It was determined to move to 367 Evening Side and attempt to contact Mitchell. If Mitchell answered the door he would be asked to leave. If he refused to leave he would be arrested for Obstructing a Police Officer. If Mitchell refused to answer the door, force entry would be made and Mitchell would be arrested.'”

RULE OF LAW!

Those motherfuckers should be making license plates from now until the day they die.

The labor market is in a catch-22 right now: the participation rate has dropped so low that large increases in the rate will inevitably lead to increases in the U3. Theoretically, more people entering the workforce is good, but a dramatic increase in that figure would catapult the U3 back into the 8s or 9s.

It is. My father was the third of a single mother. His dad died in a construction accident when he was five. Back in those days a woman losing a husband meant poverty. But you see pictures of my dad and his brothers and mother from the 50s and they look like something out of Leave it to Beaver even though they really didn’t have a pot to piss in as my father says.

In contrast, I see me and my nice middle class siblings in the 70s, and my sisters looked like groupies at a Led Zeppelin concert and my brothers looked like Mexican banditos. Wow did the world change quick.

Isn’t it? Whenever I see pictures of hippies and rock concerts and such from the 60s I can’t help but think “that is probably someone’s grandmother standing there smoking that joint yelling “we love you Mick”.

I loved being a kid in Rochester, MN in the 70’s. We ran all over the place, from dawn til dusk. My Ma had a coach’s whistle she would blow at dinnertime so we would know it was time to come home. Lemonade stands weren’t required to be licensed. And I had cute clothes, so there!

What’s funny to me about this story is that these guys were SO BOUND AND DETERMINED to pull this stunt that they shot the occupants of the house with non-lethal rounds to get their way.

Because it never, ever, occurred to them that forcibly removing those people from their homes was outside the bounds of their authority. Because they have been reliably assured there is no limit to police authority, and no constraint on their actions.

Pretty much. The worst part about the story is not what happened so much, thought that is bad. The worst part is that so many cops were involved and apparently thought it was a good idea. No one stood up and said stop. All of them apparently thought this was perfectly legal and okay.

If it were the product of a few bad cops, that would be bad. But it seems to be a product of an entire culture and that is a lot worse.

Whatever is done in an “emergency” will eventually be SOP. Really this is nothing that different than what the baboons did in Boston. So what starts as an emergency measure quickly becomes how cops deal with every investigation.

Even though unemployment stayed the same, I notice that labor force participation went up 0.1%. I assume the talking point will relate to the fact that increases in labor force participation are good, despite the fact that the media chose to ignore LFP for 5 years when it didn’t help their talking points.

The other thing that has screwed teenagers is the lawsuit industry. If one of my employees slaps some woman on the ass or breaks out with a racial slur, I am in for a world of litigation and hurt. Given those stakes, is it a smart idea to hire a teenager who has never worked before?

I thought you could only be found liable if you knew about the harassment and did nothing about it. Obviously they could still sue you, but I don’t think you’d be liable for an employee busting out a racial slur.

When they dismiss with extreme prejudice, the theme from Shaft starts playing, the judge calls you an ignorant mother fucker, and the bailiff kicks you in the balls for “wasting the court’s sweet ass time.”

The question is not what the law says, the question is how much it will cost you to defend yourself from it and the risk that the “aggrieved” party can sell a good enough sob story to a jury that they find you liable anyway

“That’s just the type of person he is, you know? That’s just the type of person he is. Business is business. ‘I got to take care of business, he’s safe, the police are coming, I got to go,'” Houston said.

A few weeks ago I was mowing a pasture when I scared a mother duck off her nest. When she didn’t come back I gathered up her ten eggs and stuck them under a broody hen in the barn. They hatched on the fourth and now we have ten confused little ducklings. I wonder how many federal laws I have broken by doing this.

Police in Seattle are investigating a Nevada man arrested near the University of Washington in a stolen pickup truck filled with weapons, body armor and suspected explosive devices.

University of Washington police chief John Vinson said at a Thursday afternoon news conference that the man was driving a stolen truck out of Montana and had with him a scoped rifle, shotgun and fewer than 10 Molotov cocktails.

Fewer than 10?, Why the hell didn’t they just give the actual damn number? I mean I know being cops they are intellectually challenged when it comes to logic so math is extra hard for them but they could have at least held up the right number of fingers and said “this many” or something.